Summary
Kevin Rapp is a hardware reliability engineer with nearly 10 years of experience guiding products from concept through testing, field performance, and production-scale across consumer electronics, automotive, and aerospace. As Manager of Hardware Reliability at Zoox, he currently leads reliability strategy and execution for autonomous-vehicle hardware. He previously led reliability for Apple’s iPad accessories, including the Magic Keyboard, driving DFMEA, testing, and production readiness from concept to customer delivery. His career includes senior reliability roles at BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman, giving him a broad view of high-stakes hardware in aerospace and defense, plus early quality engineering at Ford. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he holds a UC Berkeley BS in Industrial Engineering and has expanded his toolkit with Udacity nanodegrees in self-driving cars and machine learning, along with Python, JMP, Reliasoft, SQL, and MATLAB.
9 years of coding experience